REFLECTIONS ON THE ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC: AFTER A FEW DAYS OF PENIOUS THEATER, IN THE END, RESPECT AND RESPONSIBILITY PREVAILED

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I know that you will be able to make a careful analysis of what happened and you will start again from it to try to mend that relationship with the Italians who, after the little theater these days, they find it hard to recognize themselves in you. Know how to start from here and know how to find in yourself the reasons for your commitment. If not, you will be able to find them, return home, because Italians deserve the best. They deserve honesty.

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Anna Monia Alfieri, I.M.

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The President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella

At the end of a truly impressive week for each of us, during which even those who have “the head on the shoulders” he felt lost, I think of you young people in a particular way. Perhaps you too are disoriented, sorry, and think that, at the bottom of, it is of little use to commit oneself to public affairs. I myself have experienced a sense of profound disorientation, but the words of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella last night, so essential, linear, without any claims, they communicated a feeling of harmony and peace and perhaps they helped us to recover certain fundamental elements.

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The collective reaction was positive, so that of Europe; there was no lack of yellow card celebrations of some politicians who tried to ascribe the success and salvation of the country, just as there was no shortage of improvised constitutionalists, Alas! The non-knowledge hoisted into the system is intolerable and no one thinks that the citizens are distracted, or who are spectators to be made fun of, they forget so much.

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To tie up the threads of a delirious week let's start from the words of the President of the Republic: «Respect» for the Institutions, "Responsibility" for the country and the citizens who will certainly have felt disconcerted and perhaps even impressed. These had already been key words in the President's way of proceeding. Let's go in order then:

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1. In the 2018 the difficulty of composing a Government, as no party significantly won the elections, had cost him the accusation of impeachment. Even then, "respect" for the institutions and a sense of "responsibility" towards the citizens saved the situation from disaster. First the yellow-green government is launched, then the yellow-red;
2. In the 2020 Covid like a black swan, while dragging the country into an abyss, makes it clear that a competent Guide is needed, credible and courageous. It is still the "respect" and "responsibility" for the institutions that keep democracy and credibility on the outside. Thus we arrive at a Government of National Unity at the helm of Premier Draghi;
3. In the 2021 you have the try again, with the rejection of the Zan bill in Parliament, how much the two keywords were missing, having the same author declared in the following days that those articles so controversial could also be excerpted. Wasted time and declaration of incompetence.

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In these three symbolic events we can see how fundamental respect and responsibility towards citizens are. Otherwise, each of them should say: "I'm not there", in the Scalfaro-manner.

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a first lesson under Italian law: the President of the Republic and the highest state offices in Italian law are figures who, when they are established, for their high office, they are in a position above the political parties. Instead, what happened? there, in summary what happened:

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4. a part, Thursday 27, accuses the other of behaving like children, resorting to abstention, except then, out of a sense of respect towards the institutions, do the same on Friday 28. But in what sense abstention for the sense of the institutions?
5. And then the circus of it's my turn he was born in it's up to you propose names. But let's joke?

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In front of all this it is reasonable to think that there is no fracture within the coalitions, or presumed to be so, not even among the opposing parties: there was simply a need to keep the salary for another seven months. Like this, to give a semblance of credibility, it was necessary to demonstrate that one was trying, naturally a favor of camera, to speak to their voters. Therefore, reaching up to the eighth session - which strictly became double on Friday - so that on Sunday free everyone, the alarm was clear: the country doesn't hold up, we are in times of crisis, President Mattarella will not be able to escape, because he certainly has respect and a sense of institutional responsibility. In fact, here it is, with a huge sacrifice, also from a human and personal point of view, the President did not hold back and, Once again, puts duty before everything.

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In speech these two words are truly the key to understanding this farce that has been set up. And now what to do? We move forward, unable not to thank President Sergio Mattarella for having once again saved the country from irresponsibility, Premier Draghi who has proven to be a grandfather in the service of the country. Two high-calibre figures who, however, impose a "U" turn on the political class.

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Having said that, I would like to leave on a positive note and a teaching that gives me so much comfort. In the most dramatic moments of life, we need to look at the positive that is always found in every situation: if nothing else, certainly the awareness of the difficulty is healthy. The 28 January 2022, for the first time in the history of republican and democratic Italy, the candidacy of a woman for the presidency of the Republic was proposed and voted for by over 380 Big Voters (more than 400 abstained). Evidently the country has expressed a healthy maturity, in line with the election of the Honorable Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, four years ago, to the Presidency of the Senate. This candidacy is certainly a good message for the younger generations.

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Beyond any partisan consideration ― the role of Alberti Casellati is super parts and it will remain so in any case - as intelligent opening detects, thus the internal jealousies and resentments that have miserably prevailed are evident, clearly preventing the valorization of a colleague… Paraphrasing: «A woman is a wolf». Despite it all, we need to move forward with courage. Nothing is lost that happens for a good that surpasses us.

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A sincere thanks, At that time, goes to President Alberti Casellati who agreed to lend his figure super parts to offer us hope which is not a question of categories but of contents. Certainly the whole story allowed us to measure ourselves against the struggle of many men to welcome a woman leader, the real difficulty of many women in valuing their colleagues. Battles of gender equality ultimately hide a painful truth that we must call by name: men and women are more inclined to give solidarity and support to others who are in an inferior position but are still incapable of valorising them. This is true in politics as in many secular and ecclesial realities, nemo prophet in patria, because envy kills resources. Therefore, after an initial moment of discouragement, we look at the positive and thank these three people who have once again saved the country, given to each of us elements to hope that good wins. Myself, every time I feel discouraged in doing good, delegitimized, attached and I would like to say: “Make do”, I will think of these people who have truly restored dignity to two important words "respect" and "responsibility". Those who live moved by these values ​​will never be able to betray them even if the other does not deserve it because good is never a reaction but an action, a conscious choice. Perhaps this allows most people to live irresponsibly.

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With Sergio Mattarella the history of the Quirinale continues its glorious journey, in the wake of the past: the sense of the institutions, the preparation of the President have averted the collapse in our recent past. In all of this I see, with Father Cristoforo, a "thread of Providence" (The betrothed, cap. IV). But Providence is not enough, or better, Providence needs us, of men and women who freely choose to fulfill their duty: «We are useless servants, we did what we had to do " (LC 17, 10). This phrase has much more value for those who say they place themselves at the service of citizens through public affairs. Men and women of politics: you know it, I have great faith in you. Ma, I admit, that today this trust of mine is put to the test. So, other parte, that you will be able to carry out a careful analysis of what happened and you will start again from it to try to mend that relationship with the Italians who, after the little theater these days, they find it hard to recognize themselves in you. Know how to start from here and know how to find in yourself the reasons for your commitment. If not, you will be able to find them, return home, because Italians deserve the best. They deserve honesty. Sergio Mattarella and Mario Draghi deserve today, as Aldo Moro deserved in the past, Amintore Fanfani and Enrico Berlinguer. These names are written in their hearts, the others have been cancelled.

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Milan, 31 January 2022

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